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A Fun Day

Yesterday I took my friend Theresa with me to my other friend Caroline's house, where Lesley taught us four fabulous projects. Its always great to get together with friends for crafting and especially when they have generous spirits like Caroline and Lesley have. I took a couple of sweet thank you with me, Chocolate and vanilla cupcakes and my favourite was a Victoria sponge, we were treated to a lovely plate of sandwiches at lunchtime.

Here are the lovely projects we made, mostly from Stampin Up products, they really are lovely products to use, I was a bit naughty and tinkered a bit more with the cards when I got back home, I just can't help myself!

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About Me

I started crafting as a child with a knitting dolly and bits of wool, over time I've have 'had a go' at most things creative. My real love is scrapbooking and papercraft projects, both evolved from my card making.

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If you see something on this blog that inspires you, by all means go ahead and use it. If you do please be kind enough to link back to me, as I do if I'm inspired by other crafters. Leave a comment if you like something, I love reading them. I wholly embrace shared practice of ideas, but please don't directly copy any of my work for publication or competition entries, that's not nice.